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From: suseneedswork on 3 Apr 2008 15:49
I'm running KDE2, SuSE 10.3, nvidia video and the screensaver won't
start. None of the screensavers will kick on automatically when the
time has expired, set at 5 minutes. I can run the setup / test for
all of them and they work fine there. I can even lock the screen and
the selected screensaver will start just fine then. I turned of DPMS
for the monitor everywhere I could so now the screen just sits there
happily doing nothing unless I use lock to lock the screen. I have
tried it with no apps running, even turning off the automatic updates
adn the clock in the taskbar so nothing would be trying to write to
the gui. Is there a log file that I can look in to try and find out
what is happening? The systems starts and then goes to runlevel 5
just fine.

Thanks in advance,
From: suseneedswork on 3 Apr 2008 15:50
My bad, that should read KDE3, not 2.

From: Darklight on 4 Apr 2008 07:03
suseneedswork(a)gmail.com wrote:

> My bad, that should read KDE3, not 2.

just a stab in the dark when i installed opensuse 10.3 32 bit i had problems
with the task bar IE the icons that were on the task bar would not start so
i deleted kde4 and that resolved the problem.
From: tim1948 on 7 Apr 2008 02:18
On Apr 3, 12:49 pm, suseneedsw...(a)gmail.com wrote:
> I'm running KDE2, SuSE 10.3, nvidia video and the screensaver won't
> start. None of the screensavers will kick on automatically when the
> time has expired, set at 5 minutes. I can run the setup / test for
> all of them and they work fine there. I can even lock the screen and
> the selected screensaver will start just fine then. I turned of DPMS
> for the monitor everywhere I could so now the screen just sits there
> happily doing nothing unless I use lock to lock the screen. I have
> tried it with no apps running, even turning off the automatic updates
> adn the clock in the taskbar so nothing would be trying to write to
> the gui. Is there a log file that I can look in to try and find out
> what is happening? The systems starts and then goes to runlevel 5
> just fine.
>
> Thanks in advance,

I have occasionally had this problem, though not recently. Try using a
different screensaver.
From: suseneedswork on 7 Apr 2008 08:43
On Apr 7, 2:18 am, tim1948 <iconoklas...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Apr 3, 12:49 pm, suseneedsw...(a)gmail.com wrote:
>
> > I'm running KDE2, SuSE 10.3, nvidia video and the screensaver won't
> > start.  None of the screensavers will kick on automatically when the
> > time has expired, set at 5 minutes.  I can run the setup / test for
> > all of them and they work fine there.  I can even lock the screen and
> > the selected screensaver will start just fine then.  I turned of DPMS
> > for the monitor everywhere I could so now the screen just sits there
> > happily doing nothing unless I use lock to lock the screen.  I have
> > tried it with no apps running, even turning off the automatic updates
> > adn the clock in the taskbar so nothing would be trying to write to
> > the gui.  Is there a log file that I can look in to try and find out
> > what is happening?  The systems starts and then goes to runlevel 5
> > just fine.
>
> > Thanks in advance,
>
> I have occasionally had this problem, though not recently. Try using a
> different screensaver.

I've uninstalled KDE4, ecen rebooted in case something drasctic had
changed in the kernel, and tried several other screensavers, even the
"plain" ones. Still no go. Using the "lock screen" continues to work
fine though.

Thanks for the ideas folks!
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